Colebrookea oppositifolia, Pansra, Karimjetti, Binda, Bhaman, Bosik

Colebrookea oppositifolia Sm.
Family: Lamiaceae
Synonyms: Buchanania oppositifolia Sm. , Colebrookea ternifolia Roxb., Elsholtzia oppositifolia (Sm.) Poir., Sussodia oppositifolia (Sm.) Buch.-Ham

English: Indian Squirrel Tail
Chinese: 川滇香薷, 羽萼,
Hindi: बिंदा Binda, पांसरा Pansra
Konkani: भामिनी Bhamini
Malayalam: Karimjetti
Marathi: Dasai, भामण Bhaman
Nepali: धुर्सिल dhursil
Oriya: Bosik

Description: Large shrubs; stem and leaves densely tomentose. Leaves to 20 x 6 cm, elliptic, acuminate, crenulate, base acute to acuminate, nerves ca.10 pairs, oblique. Spikes to 10 x 0.5 cm, panicled, terminal, densely hairy. Flowers in close whorls; calyx 1.5 mm long; tube very short, densely white-hairy, lobes subulate; corolla 2 mm long, equally 4-lobed; stamens 4, exserted in male flowers, included in female flowers, filaments glabrous; style 2-fid at tip. Nutlets hairy at apex; fruiting calyx larger.

10 Published articles of Colebrookea oppositifolia
1.    Ferulic acid ester from Colebrookea oppositifolia
Verma, Suresh Kumar; Pareek, Deepika; Singhal, Reenkoo; et al.
INDIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY SECTION B-ORGANIC CHEMISTRY INCLUDING MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY  Volume: 51   Issue: 10   Pages: 1502-1503   Published: OCT 2012

2.    In vitro evaluation of antioxidant activity of Colebrookea oppositifolia Smith.
Barman, N. R.; Paul, H. S.; Kar, P. K.; et al.
International Journal of Drug Discovery and Herbal Research (IJDDHR)  Issue: Jan/March   Pages: 296-300   Published: 2012

3.    In vitro antifungal activities of amphotericin B in combination with acteoside, a phenylethanoid glycoside from Colebrookea oppositifolia
Ali, Intzar; Sharma, Punita; Suri, Krishan Avtar; et al.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY  Volume: 60   Issue: 9   Pages: 1326-1336   Published: SEP 2011

4.    In vitro-in vivo evaluation of cardioprotective effect of the leaf extract of Colebrookea oppositifolia Sm.
Pallab, K. H.; Kush, B.; Kumar, P. A.; et al.
Journal of Global Trends in Pharmaceutical Sciences  Volume: 2   Issue: 3   Pages: 310-324   Published: 2011

5.    A new acylated flavone glycoside from Colebrookea oppositifolia
Reddy, Ramireddy Venkata Narahari; Reddy, Bandi Anil Kumar; Gunasekar, Duvvuru
JOURNAL OF ASIAN NATURAL PRODUCTS RESEARCH  Volume: 11   Issue: 2   Pages: 183-186   Article Number: PII 908715769   Published: 2009

6.    Isolation of pure acetoside useful as hepatoprotective agent involves drying and grounding parts of Colebrookea oppositifolia, percolating powder and filtering the extract, drying supernatant and fractionating the residue
Patent Number: WO2004087184-A1; AU2003215819-A1; EP1617853-A1; JP2006514675-W; CN1771048-A; EP1617853-B1; DE60317111-E; JP4486508-B2; JP2009286800-A; CN100467033-C
Patent Assignee: COUNCIL SCI&IND RES INDIA
Inventor(s): QAZI G N; SURI O P; BEDI K L; et al.
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7.    Flavonoid content of Eupatorium glandulosum and Colebrookea oppositifolia.
Mukherjee, P. K.; Mukherjee, K.; Hermans-Lokkerbol, A. C. J.; et al.
Journal of Natural Remedies  Volume: 1   Issue: 1   Pages: 21-24   Published: 2001

8.    Flavonoid glycosides from Colebrookea oppositifolia
Yang, F; Li, XC; Wang, HQ; et al.
PHYTOCHEMISTRY  Volume: 42   Issue: 3   Pages: 867-869   Published: JUN 1996

9.    CHEMICAL INVESTIGATION AND PHARMACOLOGICAL SCREENING OF THE ROOTS OF COLEBROOKEA-OPPOSITIFOLIA
ANSARI S; DOBHAL M P; TYAGI R P; et al.
Die Pharmazie  Volume: 37   Issue: 1   Pages: 70   Published: 1982

10.    2 NEW FLAVONES FROM COLEBROOKEA-OPPOSITIFOLIA
PATWARDHAN, SA; GUPTA, AS
INDIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY SECTION B-ORGANIC CHEMISTRY INCLUDING MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY  Volume: 20   Issue: 7   Pages: 627-627   Published: 1981